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We become innocent when we are unfortunate.
Jean de La Fontaine
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Jean de La Fontaine
Age: 73 †
Born: 1621
Born: June 8
Died: 1695
Died: April 13
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French Moralist
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Chateau-Thierry
J. de La Fontaine
Jean de la Fontaine
Jean de Lafontaine
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Sensible people find nothing useless. [Fr., Il n'est rien d'inutile aux personnes de sens.]
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The fastidious are unfortunate: nothing can satisfy them. [Lat., Les delicats sont malheureux, Rien ne saurait les satisfaire.]
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Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
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A hare is not caught with a drum.
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Is not moderation an old refrain Ringing in our ears? from which we all refrain.
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It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]
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If you deal with a fox, think of his tricks.
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Un auteur ga te tout quand il veut trop bien faire. An author spoils everything when he wants too much to do good.
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Rely only on yourself it is a common proverb.
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Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion even a prudent enemy is preferable.
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Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
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By the work one knows the workman.
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Religious contention is the devil's harvest.
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There is no road of flowers leading to glory.
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He knows the universe and does not know himself.
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We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
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Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.
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We risk all in being too greedy.
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